PBJ

We have a vision that every person who calls Parkland Foursquare home would have a vibrant devotional life in the written Word of God. PBJ stands for Prayer. Bible. Journal. It is a simple way to stay engaged daily in the word of God.

1. Join our daily BIBLE reading plan.
2. PRAY as you read the Bible and ask Holy Spirit to reveal the scriptures to you.
3. JOURNAL down insights, questions, observations and prayers that come to you as you read the Bible.

For the week of July 12th-18th by Lizz Horn

The Church in Corinth is plagued by divisiveness. In 1 Corinthians 1, Paul addresses these divisions and pleads for the church to be of one mind and purpose. He closes his second letter with an appeal for the same thing. Paul wants to see the Spirit equip and sustain God’s church.

In Paul’s closing remarks to the church in Corinth, he tells them to do five things in verse 11. Let’s explore them:

1. Paul tells the Corinthians to REJOICE. Paul calls the Corinthians  to rejoice and recognize that in Christ they are well provided for in every moment. It’s worth celebrating!!
2. Paul tells the Corinthians to aim for RESTORATION.  This restoration would include any ongoing sin that needs to be addressed. Paul wants to see the division in the Corinthian church restored.
3. Paul wants the Corinthians to COMFORT. Paul wants to see the rifts that were created in the Corinthian church healed. Comforting one another is a call to the Corinthian church to build each other up. 
4. Paul tells them to AGREE. Paul wants to see the Corinthian church to be of one mind and one purpose. This call to agree isn’t about uniformity, but about being united in Christ. 
5. Paul wants the Corinthians to live in PEACE. The Holy Spirit brings peace. What Paul is saying is that the body of Christ should be visibly marked by peace. 

I’m going to go out on a limb right now and say that the American Church body is acting a lot like the Corinthians. There is division – and we’re not living in peace. These are absolutely crazy times we’re living in, and everyone is stressed and confused, but we have to do better. The political polarization we see going on in the church is divisive and hurting people and families. Churches are being destroyed and pastors are being attacked. The American Church is not setting an example of peace or allowing the Holy Spirit to transform it. Thankfully, Paul tells us exactly what to do.

Let’s be a church that rejoices in what Christ is doing. Let’s be a church that aims for restoration Let’s see sin addressed and rifts mended! Let’s comfort one another and build each other up. Let us be of one mind and one purpose- which is Christ! Let us live in peace with each other, and with the world.

1. What does it look like for a church to be divisive, have rifts, and cause hurt? 
2. What does it look like for a church to rejoice, restore, comfort, be of one mind, and live in peace? 
3. What changes do you need to make for our church to be what Paul encourged the Corinthian church to be?

PBJ Reading Plan for June and July:

June

1: Numbers 2-3, Acts 28:17-31

2: Numbers 4, Acts 21:17-26

3: Numbers 5-6, Acts 21:27-26

4: Numbers 7, Acts 6:1-7

5: Numbers 6:24-26

6: Numbers 8, Acts 6:8-15

7: Num. 9, 1 Corinthians 14:1-17

8: Numbers 10, 1 Cor. 14:8-40

9: Numbers 11, Hebrews 3:1-6

10: Numbers 12-13, Heb. 3:7-19

11: Numbers 14-15, Luke 4:1-30

12: Hebrews 3:4-6

13: Pslam 90, Luke 4:31-44

14: Numbers 16, 2 Timothy 2:1-19

15: Numbers 17, 2 Tim. 2:20-26

16: Numbers 18, Hebrews 9:6-12

17: Numbers 19-20, Heb. 9:13-28

18: Numbers 21, John 3:1-21

19: 2 Timothy 2:22

20: Numbers 22, John 3:22-36

21: Numbers 23, Matthew 2:1-12

22: Num. 24-25, Matt. 2:13-23.

23: Numbers 26, Matthew 9:1-17

24: Num. 27, Matthew 9:18-38

25: Numbers 28-29, Acts 27:1-12

26: Matthew 2:10-11

27: Numbers 30, Acts 27:13-44

28: Numbers 31-32, 1 Cor. 3:1-15

29: Num. 33-34, 1 Cor. 3:16-23

30: Numbers 35, 1 Cor. 7:1-24

July

1: Numbers 36, 1 Cor. 725-40

2: Deuteronomy 1, Jude 1:1-16Â

3: 1 Corinthians 3:7-9

4: Deut. 2, Jude 1:17-25

5: Deut. 3, Hebrews 12:18-24

6: Deut. 4, Hebrews 12:25-29

7: Deut. 5, Luke 10:1-20

8: Deut. 6-7, Luke 10:21-42

9: Deut. 8, 2 John 1:1-15

10: Deut. 4:39

11: Deut. 9-10, 2 John 1:6-13

12: Deut. 11, Acts 14:1-20

13: Deut. 12-13, Acts 14:21-28

14: Deut. 14-15, John 12:1-19

15: Deut. 16, John 12:20-50

16: Deut. 17-18, 2 Cor. 13:1-6

17: Deut. 10:12-13

18: Deut. 19-20, 2 Cor. 13:7-14

19: Deut. 21, Matthew 1:18-21

20: Deut. 22-23, Matt. 1:22-25

21: Deut. 24-25, 1 Cor. 9:1-12

22: Deut. 26, 1 Cor. 9:13-27

23: Deut. 27-28, Galatians 3:1-14

24: 2 Corinthians 13:14

25: Deut. 29, Galatians 3:15-29

26: Deut. 30-31, Romans 10:1-13

27: Deut. 32, Romans 10:14-21

28: Pslam 91, Revelation 4:1-8

29: Deut. 33-34, Revelation 4:9-11

30: Joshua 1, 2 Cor. 16:1-13

31: Deut. 30:19-20